/ en /three-stapletons-and-other-remarkable-acquisitions-new-college-library-2024 <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2024-12/Endpapers%20illustration%20by%20Nicola%20Howell%20Hawley%20to%20Andrew%20Caldecott%E2%80%99s%20Simul%20%282024%29.jpeg.webp?itok=Ls2TPwSP" width="655" height="435" alt="Nicola Howell Hawley, endpapers illustration to Andrew Caldecott’s Simul (2024)" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> Three Stapletons and Other Remarkable Acquisitions to New College Library in 2024 </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Christopher Skelton-Foord</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2024): 22</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/117" hreflang="en">Thomas Stapleton</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/80" hreflang="en">Library Antiquarian</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/615" hreflang="en">BT1.17.22</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/616" hreflang="en">BT3.12.13</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/617" hreflang="en">BT3.38.15</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/273" hreflang="en">John Owen</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/618" hreflang="en">Francis Noel Clarke Mundy</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/420" hreflang="en">William Somervile</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/387" hreflang="en">Edward Perry Warren</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/619" hreflang="en">Erich Maria Remarque</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/74" hreflang="en">Archives</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/544" hreflang="en">Duff Cooper</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/230" hreflang="en">Kate Mosse</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/620" hreflang="en">Chris Lethbridge</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/621" hreflang="en">Andrew Caldecott</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/622" hreflang="en">Paul Hoffman</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>The earliest important imprints acquired this year are three 16th- and early 17th-century volumes by a priest and scholar whose erudition was much admired by Pope Clement VIII. Thomas Stapleton (1535–98), one of college’s foremost theologians, was possibly named after St Thomas More—who was martyred under Henry VIII for refusing to avow royal over spiritual supremacy; More was executed just days before Stapleton’s birth. From Winchester College, Stapleton proceeded to Ï㽶ֱ²¥, where in 1553 he was elected a fellow. In 1558, he was ordained a priest under Mary I. But within a couple of years, he had been forced to flee to the Low Countries, following Elizabeth I’s accession.</h3> <h3>And, of course—we have been acquiring some remarkable modern books and archival documents too.&nbsp;</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Nicola Howell Hawley, endpapers illustration to Andrew Caldecott’s <em>Simul</em> (2024)<br>New College Library, Oxford, NC/CAL</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>New College Library and Archives, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2025-01/22NCN8%20%282024%29%20Skelton-Foord%20on%20Acquisitions%202024.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=1670130" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">22NCN8 (2024) Skelton-Foord on Acquisitions 2024.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">1.59 MB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Tue, 31 Dec 2024 05:13:08 +0000 Christopher 3261 at /node/2598 <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2022-12/New%20College%20Library%2C%20Oxford%2C%20NB.66.33.jpg.webp?itok=z-8yxQE6" width="655" height="435" alt="New College Library, Oxford, NB.66.33" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> Chasing Somervile, Ï㽶ֱ²¥â€™s Poet of the Hunt </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Christopher Skelton-Foord</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2022): 18</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/420" hreflang="en">William Somervile</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/80" hreflang="en">Library Antiquarian</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/74" hreflang="en">Archives</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/119" hreflang="en">Poetry</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/421" hreflang="en">Hunting</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>The two principal passions in the life of William Somervile (1675–1742) appear to have been hunting and poetry, which together combined in his most celebrated work, the four-volume hunting georgic poem <em>The Chace</em> (1735). Somervile was schooled in Stratford-upon-Avon, and thereafter Winchester College, before proceeding to Ï㽶ֱ²¥, where he later became a fellow. New College Library’s holdings of his works are extensive, varied, and remarkable.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>New College Library, Oxford, NB.66.33</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>New College Library and Archives, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2022-12/18NCN6%20%282022%29%20Skelton-Foord%20on%20Somervile.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=800585" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">18NCN6 (2022) Skelton-Foord on Somervile.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">781.82 KB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Thu, 29 Dec 2022 21:01:16 +0000 Christopher 2598 at